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Philip

Philip IV

Philippines

Philips, Jonathan

Pickthall, Mohammed Marmaduke

Pinet, Jasmine

Pipes, Daniel

Plato

pluralism

Poland

Polo, Marco

polygamy

Pontifical Council for the Inter-Religious Dialogue

Probus of Antioch

Prophet of Islam.
See
Muhammad prostitution

 

Q

 

Qaddafi, Muammar

al-Qalanisi, Ibn

al-Qaradawi, Yusuf

al-Qayrawani, Ibn Abi Zayd

Qilaba, Abu

Qur’an: abrogation (
naskh
) and; Allah and; Bible vs.; bin Laden, Osama and; as book of war; canceling of verses of; child marriage and; dhimmitude and; divorce and; female circumcision and; jihad and; jizya and; lying and; Muhammad as man of war and; murder and; Paradise and; PC myths about; as peaceful; recruitment and; science and; suicide and temporary wives and; terrorism and; theft and; tolerance and; unbelievers and; Verse of the Sword in; violence in; women and
See also
Allah; Hadith; Islam; Muhammad

Quraysh tribe

Qutb, Sayyid

 

R

 

Rabi’a, Shaiba bin

Rabi’a, ‘Utba bin

racism

The Raft of Mohammed (Péroncel-Hugoz)

Rahman, Omar Abdel

Rajab

Ramadan, Hani

rape: adultery and; Islamic law (Sharia) and; Muslim understanding of

al-Rashid, Harun

Raymond, Count of Toulouse

ar-Razi, Abu Bakr

Razmara, Haji-Ali

recruitment: jihad and; Qur’an and

The Reformation of Morals (‘Adi)

Reliance of the Traveller

religious fundamentalism

Revell, Oliver

Reynald of Chatillon

Rhazes

Rice, Condoleezza

Richard the Lionhearted

Riley-Smith, Jonathan

Robertson, Pat

Romans

Romanus IV Diogenes

Rome, Italy

Rudolph, Eric

Rumi, Jalaluddin

Runciman, Steven

Rushd, Abul-Waleed Muhammad Ibn
See
Averroes

Rushdie, Salman

Russell, Bertrand

Russians, in Chechnya

 

S

 

el-Saadawi, Nawal.

Sacred Mosque

Sa’deddin, Hoca

Saladin: Crusades and; jihad and.

Salemah, Yussef

Salfi, Younas.

al-Samaraai, Bakr Abed Al-Razzaq.

Saracens

Satan

Saudi Arabia; Islamic law (Sharia) in; jihad in; Wahhabi Islam in; women in

Sauma, Rabban

Schwartz, Stephen

science: Allah and; Christianity and; Islam and; Judaism and; Qur’an and

Scot, Daniel

Scott, Sir Ridley

Seljuk Turks

Sellouk, Ariel

September 11; bin Laden, Osama and; Islam and; jihad and; responsibility for

Serbia

sexism

Sha’ban

Shafi’i Islam

Shi’ite Islam: Assassins and; religious deception and; Sunni Islam and; temporary wives and

A Short History of the Crusades (Riley-Smith)

Sicily

Siddiqui, Haroon

Simon Wiesenthal Center

Sistani, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husayni

socialism

Solomon’s Temple

Sophronius

South Africa

Spain; Islamic conquest in;
reconquista
in

Sperry, Paul

Stalinism

Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

State Defense Council (Majlis al-Shura)

State Department, U.S.

Stewart, Lynne

Submission

Sufi Islam

Sufyan, Abu

suicide bombers, Paradise and

Sunni Islam: caliphate and; jihad and; murder and; religious deception and; Shi’ite Islam and

Surat Al-Masad

Suyuti, Jalal al-Din ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria; Islamic conquest in

 

T

 

Tabandeh, Sultanhussein

Tabuk, Battle of

Tafsir al-Jalalayn

Taghribirdi, Ibn

Taliban

Tamerlane

Tancred

Tantawi, Muhammad Sayyed

taqiyya (religious deception)

Tarik

Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste

Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn

Tefft, Bruce

Ten Commandments

terrorism.
See
jihad

Thailand

Thaqif tribe

theft

Theodosius

The Thousand and One Nights (Rumi)

Tibet

Tocqueville, Alexis de

tolerance: Islam and; Muhammad and; Qur’an and

Torah

Toronto Star

Treaty of Hudaybiyya

Trench, Battle of (627)

Tripoli

Tritton, A. S.

“The True Meaning of Jihad”

tsunami (2004)

Turks; Constantinople and; Seljuk

23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad (Dashti)

 

U

 

Uhud

Ulama (Muslim scholars)

Umar

‘Umar, Lieutenant

Umdat al-Salik

umma (community)

unbelievers; distinction between believers and; Islamic theology and; jihad and unbelievers (continued): jizya and; Qur’an and
See also
dhimmitude

United Nations (UN); Islamic tolerance and; Islamophobia and

United States: caliphate in; defeat of jihad and; energy sources of; foreign aid of; global alliances of; Islam and; jihad and; Muslims in, xv; neo-colonialism of

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Urban II, Crusades and

‘Utba, Hind bint

Uthmani, Tafsir

Uwaq, Atsiz bin

 

V

 

Vacalopoulos, Apostolos E.

van Gogh, Theo

Verse of the Sword (Ayat al-Sayf)

Vesalius, Andreas

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Virgil

Voices Behind the Veil: The World of Islam Through the Eyes of Women (ed. Caner), 76

 

W

 

Wadud, Amina

Wahaj, Siraj

Waheed, Imran

Wahhabi Islam

Wallachia

War on Terror

Washington Post

Washington Times

Wesley, John

West: Catholic Church and; Christianity and; Crusades and; defense of; Islam and; pride in; recovering pride in

Williams, John.
See
Muhammad, John

women: Allah and; child marriage and; divorce and; domestic violence and; dress regulations and; education of; female circumcision and; in Islam; Islamic law (Sharia) and; Islamic oppression of; Muhammad and; PC myths about Islam and; polygamy and; prostitution and; Qur’an and; rape and; in Saudi Arabia; spiritual equality of; temporary wives and

Woods, Thomas E., Jr.

World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, xiv

World Trade Center bombing (1993)

World War I

World War II

 

Y

 

Yeagley, David

Yemen

Ye’or, Bat

 

Z

 

zakat

Zaman

Zaraqawi

Zoroaster (Zarathustra)

Zoroastrians; in Afghanistan; dhimmitude and; jihad and

Zur’a Abi ‘Ali ‘Isa ibn

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: ISLAM

Chapter 1:

Muhammad: Prophet of War

Muhammad the raider

The Battle of Badr

Assassination and deceit

Revenge and pretexts

In victory and defeat, more Islam

PC Myth: We can negotiate with these people

Chapter 2:

The Qur’an: Book of War

The Qur’an counsels war

PC Myth: The Qur’an teaches tolerance and peace

PC Myth: The Qur’an teaches believers to take up arms only in self-defense

The Qur’an’s tolerant verses: “canceled”

PC Myth: The Qur’an and the Bible are equally violent

Chapter 3:

Islam: Religion of War

PC Myth: Islam’s war teachings are only a tiny element of the religion

Three choices

It’s not just Muhammad’s opinion. It’s the law.

PC Myth: Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists

But what about moderate Muslims?

Chapter 4:

Islam: Religion of Intolerance

PC Myth: Islam is a tolerant faith

The dhimma

PC Myth: Historically the dhimma wasn’t so bad

Taxpayer woes

Pushing too hard

PC Myth: Jews had it better in Muslim lands than in Christian Europe

PC Myth: Dhimmitude is a thing of the past

PC Myth: Islam values pre-Islamic cultures in Muslim countries

Chapter 5:

Islam Oppresses Women

PC Myth: Islam respects and honors women

The great Islamic cover-up

Child marriage

Wife-beating

An offer they can’t refuse

Don’t go out alone

Temporary husbands

Prophetic license

Temporary wives

Rape: Four witnesses needed

Female circumcision

Long-term prospects? Dim

Chapter 6:

Islamic Law: Lie, Steal, and Kill

Lying: It’s wrong—except when it isn’t

Theft: It all depends on who you’re stealing from

Murder: It all depends on whom you’re killing

Universal moral values? Can’t find them.

PC Myth: Islam forbids the killing of the innocent

Chapter 7:

How Allah Killed Science

What about art and music?

PC Myth: Islam was once the foundation of a great cultural and scientific flowering

What happened to the Golden Age?

Allah kills science

But all is not lost: Some things for which we can thank Islam

Chapter 8:

The Lure of Islamic Paradise

What’s behind Door Number One

The joy of sex

How to gain entry into Paradise

The Assassins and the lure of Paradise

Chapter 9:

Islam—Spread by the Sword? You Bet.

PC Myth: Early Muslims had no bellicose designs on neighboring lands

PC Myth: The native Christians of the Middle East and North Africa welcomed the Muslims as liberators

PC Myth: Early jihad warriors were merely defending Muslim lands from their non-Muslim neighbors

Not only West, but East

What did the Muslims want?

PC Myth: Christianity and Islam spread in pretty much the same way

Part II: THE CRUSADES

Chapter 10:

Why the Crusades Were Called

PC Myth: The Crusades were an unprovoked attack by Europe against the Islamic world

PC Myth: The Crusades were an early example of the West’s predatory imperialism

PC Myth: The Crusades were fought by Westerners greedy for gain

PC Myth: The Crusades were fought to convert Muslims to Christianity by force

Chapter 11:

The Crusades: Myth and Reality

PC Myth: The Crusaders established European colonies in the Middle East

PC Myth: The capture of Jerusalem was unique in medieval history and caused Muslim mistrust of the West

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